A number of ships of the French Navy have borne the name ''Formidable'', honouring the trait of inspiring fear in the enemy. Among them: * (1691–1714), a 96-gun ship of the line * (1751–1759), an 80-gun ship of the line, captured by the Royal Navy and commissioned as HMS ''Ham''. * ''Formidable'' (1795–1814), ex-''Marat'', a ''Téméraire''-class ship of the line * (1795–1805), an 80-gun ship of the line * (1824–1836) * (1885), an early battleship ote that in the early summer of 1795 there were two French ships of the line which bore the same name for three weeks.

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